Barron Field

Sonnet On Affixing A Tablet To The Memory Of Captain Cook And Sir Joseph Banks Against The Rock Of Their First Landing In Botany Bay - Poem by Barron Field

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I have been musing what our Banks had saidAnd Cook, had they had second sight, that here(Where fifty years ago the first they wereOf voyagers, whose feet did ever treadThese savage shores) — that here on this south headShould stand an English farm-hut; and that thereOn yon north shore, a barrack tow'r should peer;Still more had they this simple Tablet read,Erected by their own compatriots born,Colonists here of a discordant state,Yet big with virtues (though the flow'ry nameWhich Science left it, has become a scornAnd hissing to the nations), if our GreatBe Wise and Good. So fairest Rome became!

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